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In August 1967, Congress refused to support NASA's plans for the 1970s. Citing fiscal restraint, it rejected piloted Mars/Venus flyby missions in 1975 and 1977 and canceled the Voyager Mars/Venus program, NASA's only robotic program planned for the decade. The Apollo Applications Program, which had been tapped as the agency's main 1970s piloted program, suffered a cut of half a billion dollars.
This assault on NASA's future was partly the result of the deadly Apollo 1 fire (January 1967), which undermined confidence in the U.S. civilian space agency. A growing Federal budget deficit fueled by the escalating war in Indochina also played a role.
NASA's detractors argued that piloted flybys, Voyager, and AAP were stealthy steps toward an early commitment to costly piloted Mars landing missions. Others complained that NASA's program lacked "balance." This criticism meant different things coming from different people. For some, it meant that NASA gave to astronauts tasks that robots could perform more cheaply and with less risk; for others, it meant that NASA placed too much emphasis on the moon and Mars and not enough on the rest of the Solar System.
NASA officials met with Congressional leaders in late September 1967 to try to negotiate a replacement for Voyager. NASA Administrator James Webb and others reminded them that, with Voyager gone, the U.S. would have no robotic planetary program after the Mariner 1969 Mars flyby missions, leaving to the Soviet Union the prestige benefits of Solar System exploration. Congress relented partially, agreeing to initiate funding in Fiscal Year 1969 for a pair of Mariner 1971 Mars orbiters and a pair of Mariner-based Mars orbiter/lander missions in 1973.
This concession, combined with the successful first unmanned flight of the Apollo Saturn V rocket (Apollo 4) in early November 1967, encouraged some within NASA to look for ways of accommodating the detractors while continuing planning for piloted Mars missions. In late November-early December 1967, NASA's Office of Manned Space Flight asked J. Downs and W. Thompson of Bellcomm, NASA's advanced planning contractor, to develop a plan for a feasible "balanced manned and unmanned planetary program through 1980." Their blueprint, completed in late February 1968, included Mariner-based robotic Mars and Venus spacecraft as precursors to piloted Mars and Venus flybys and robotic pure science missions to Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, and beyond.
Downs and Thompson kicked off their program with a Mariner Venus flyby in 1970. The spacecraft, which would be built from "spare parts" left over from Mariner Mars 1969, would possibly use Venus' gravity to speed it toward a flyby of the planet Mercury. The next year, NASA would launch the Mariner Mars orbiters it had discussed with Congress. The Bellcomm engineers called for them to be launched on Titan III-C rockets so that they could each carry a 350-pound rough-landing probe bearing 13 pounds of instrumentation. The probes would begin the in-situ search for life on Mars.
Next up, in 1972, a Titan III-C would launch a Venus orbiter bearing an atmosphere probe. In keeping with NASA's agreement with Congress, in 1973 two more Titan III-C rockets would each launch a Mars orbiter/probe combination. Downs and Thompson expected that the 1971 landing probe would have found life on Mars, so the instruments on the twin 1973 probes could focus on learning about that life. In addition to Mars, the orbiters would image Phobos and Deimos, the two small martian moons.
The year 1973 would also see a Mariner spacecraft fly past Venus and release a 600-pound probe designed to survive landing on the cloudy planet's harsh surface. With help from Venus' gravity, the Mariner would then fly past Mercury. Downs and Thompson noted that placing a spacecraft into orbit around Mercury would demand a great deal of energy (hence propellant), and advised that the decision about whether to fly a Mercury orbiter should be postponed until after the 1973 flyby. They also noted that the next Venus-Mercury flyby opportunity would not occur until 1982.
In 1974, NASA would expand its horizons to the stars by launching a 600-pound "Galactic Jupiter Probe" on an Atlas rocket with a Centaur upper stage. As envisioned by engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, the Galactic Jupiter probe would explore Jupiter and use a gravity-assist from that giant planet to gain speed and bend its course. The spacecraft would climb above the plane of the ecliptic to explore interplanetary particles and fields and, ultimately, escape the Solar System entirely to wander derelict among the stars.
In the Downs-Thompson blueprint, 1975 would be a busy year. A Mars orbiter more sophisticated than any launched before would dispatch a heavy probe to a landing site that scientists had identified as exobiologically interesting based on Mariner Mars 1971/1973 data. A second Galactic Jupiter Probe would begin its journey to Jupiter and beyond, and NASA would launch two Venus orbiters, each bearing two rough-landing probes.
The year 1976 would see the first of four NASA missions to non-planetary Solar System bodies: an Atlas-Centaur would launch a Mariner past short-period Comet d'Arrest. In 1978, a Mariner would fly past the asteroid Icarus, and asteroid Eros would receive a Mariner in 1979. Finally, a Mariner launched on a Titan III-C/Centaur would fly past Comet Encke in 1980.
In 1977, NASA would launch a Venus orbiter with a high-resolution cloud-piercing radar and multiple atmosphere probes. The new-design Venus orbiter used in 1975 and 1977 would need a launch vehicle more powerful than the Titan III-C. Downs and Thompson suggested a reduced-capability Saturn V variant. The 1975 and 1977 Mars missions would also need this powerful rocket.
The 1977 automated Mars mission would serve as a dedicated precursor for the piloted Mars/Venus flyby mission scheduled for launch in 1978. Among other tasks, its landing probe would provide data on the topography of a landing site chosen for one of the piloted flyby spacecraft's large Mars Surface Sample Return (MSSR) probes.
The year 1977 would also see the first "Grand Tour" spacecraft leave Earth on a Titan III-C with a Centaur upper stage. The new-design 1000-pound spacecraft would fly past Jupiter and receive a gravity-assist "kick" to Saturn. The gravity-assist it would receive while exploring Saturn would speed it onward to mysterious Uranus, where a third gravity-assist would send it on to Neptune. The spacecraft would fly past the Solar System's most distant gas giant planet nine years after departing Earth. A second Grand Tour spacecraft would leave Earth in 1978.
Also in 1978, NASA would launch the first of two piloted Venus/Mars/Venus flyby missions. Downs and Thompson wrote that the two piloted flyby missions would serve as precursors for a piloted Mars landing mission in 1984. The 1978 piloted flyby mission would zip past Venus in 1979, where the crew would release weather balloons and surface impactors. Later in the year, it would fly past Mars, releasing a small swarm of MSSR probes. These would land, collect Mars samples, and return them to the astronauts on the flyby spacecraft for immediate analysis. In 1981, the astronauts would fly past Venus a second time and return to Earth. The second piloted Venus/Mars/Venus flyby mission would depart Earth in 1981 and return home in 1983.
Minimum-energy launch opportunities are what they are, so it is not too surprising that NASA carried out missions resembling some of those in the Downs-Thompson blueprint. The 1971 Mariner Mars orbiters, for example, corresponded to the Mariner 9 mission, though the latter included no landing probe. (Mariner 8, the first of the intended pair of 1971 Mars orbiters, crashed in the Atlantic after its Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle failed.) The 1973 Mariner-based Mars orbiters and landers were named Viking, then funding cuts pushed their launch to 1975. NASA missed the 1970 Venus-Mercury opportunity, but launched Mariner 10 in 1973. It flew past Venus in February 1974, then past Mercury in March 1974, September 1974, and March 1975.
NASA launched its first Galactic Jupiter Probe two years early; Pioneer 10 left Earth in March 1972 and flew past Jupiter in December 1973. Its twin, Pioneer 11, left Earth in April 1973, flew past Jupiter in December 1974, and flew past Saturn in September 1979. NASA canceled the Grand Tour in 1972 after Congress refused to fund it, but launched the Mariner-based Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in September 1977 and August 1977, respectively. Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter in March 1979 and Saturn in November 1979. Voyager 2 flew past Jupiter in July 1979, Saturn in August 1981, Uranus in January 1986, and Neptune in August 1989.
NASA launched no piloted flyby in 1978; in fact, when that launch opportunity came and went no American astronauts had reached space since July 1975 (and none would again until April 1981). Instead, it launched the first U.S. Venus orbiter, Pioneer Venus 1 (May 1978), and Pioneer Venus 2 (August 1978), which carried a cluster of four Venus atmosphere entry probes. Budget cuts and Space Shuttle problems meant that Pioneer Venus 2 was the last U.S. planetary probe to leave Earth for nearly 11 years.
A Feasible Planetary Exploration Program Through 1980 - Case 710, J. P. Downs and W. B. Thompson, Bellcomm, February 29, 1968.
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This is a can't-miss event. Charles Vess and Neil Gaiman will be doing a Blueberry Girl reading, signing, art show, slideshow, book launch party at Books of Wonder on March 7th.
From Charles' blog:
"All of the original art will be on display and for sale, Neil will be there to read the text (and , one can only assume , other written delights) and I will be presenting a slide show discussing the visual evolution of his 18 line poem into a 32 page picture book."
I fortunate enough to see a number of these paintings at ComicCon a few years ago and I'm very excited to see them again.
I started an event page on Tor.om with some details -- I'll add more as they are announced.
Charles Vess Society of Illustrators lecture
Charles Vess and Michael Kaluta: 1001 Nights of Snowfall
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Charles Vess and Neil Gaiman at Books of Wonder, mark your calendar
This is a can't-miss event. Charles Vess and Neil Gaiman will be doing a Blueberry Girl reading, signing, art show, slideshow, book launch party at Books of Wonder on March 7th.
Labels: Charles Vess, Exhibits
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Me and the girls are so psyched for this! We got to see a lot of the art when we visited, and it totally deserves all the attention.
I just hope the tickets are within price range- I really don't want to miss it.
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CHESTER - A city police officer who was shot while responding to a domestic incident is recovering at home, while his alleged shooter, a 34-year-old Philadelphia man, is dead.
Police say Matthew Steward, a nine-year veteran of the Chester Police Department, was responding to a domestic incident at 12th and Culhane streets in the Highland Gardens section of the city early Monday morning when he was shot.
Frank McQueen, of the 2100 block of North 17th Street in Philadelphia, was identified as the dead man.
Police Commissioner Joseph Bail said the shooting occurred at about 3:50 a.m. Several officers responded to a call for a domestic incident at the home in the 1200 block of Culhane Street. Several officers went to the front of the house, while others went to the rear of the home.
Officers knocked on the front door, but didn't get a response. As they were about to clear the scene, a woman came running out of the front door saying a man was running out the back.
The officers at the rear of the house saw a man run out of the house with a weapon drawn. Gunfire was exchanged and the officer and suspect were both hit.
Two women and a 2-year-old, said to be McQueen's child, were in the house at the time. They were not physically injured.
'The officer was hit just below the vest,' Bail said, adding that the bullet struck the lawman on his left flank.
Steward is also an emergency medical technician and part of the police department's new Emergency Services Unit. He called in the shooting while he and another officer tended to his wounds until an ambulance arrived and transported him to Crozer-Chester Medical Center.
McQueen was hit multiple times, police said. He was also taken to CCMC, where he was pronounced dead at about 8:15 a.m., authorities said.
The officer was treated and released at about 9 a.m., police said.
According to Bail, McQueen was released from jail on Wednesday, where he was being held after an arrest on May 15 for domestic assault at the same house. He had an extensive criminal past in Delaware County, Philadelphia and Camden, with at least six arrests in Philadelphia for drugs, arson and assault, Bail said.
One of the women who live in the house where the shooting took place had an active protection from abuse order out against him, police said.
'PFA's are only a piece of paper,' said the commissioner. 'How do you protect a woman with a piece of paper? The Legislature needs to put some teeth in the law.'
Law enforcement officers often point out that domestic calls are some the most dangerous.
'Many officers are killed in these incidents,' Bail said.
The commissioner knows that all too well. On July 1, 1993, fellow Chester Police Officer Connie Hawkins was shot and killed while responding to a domestic call.
Bail said it was too early in the investigation to determine who fired the first shot.
The shooting is under investigation by detectives from the Delaware County Criminal Investigation Unit and Pennsylvania State Police.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) – The four-man rotation manager Jim Tracy has come up with for the Colorado Rockies is a double-edged sword. Each of the starters is limited to 75 pitches, whether they are doing well or not, and that can play havoc on a relief corps.
Tracy felt he had no choice when he demoted Jeremy Guthrie to the bullpen on June 19. Things may change once Jhoulys Chacin comes off the disabled list. But for right now, Jeff Francis and Co. are stuck with the current situation and earlier exits.
The left-hander allowed three runs and four hits over four innings Wednesday night in Colorado's 6-4 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, marking the sixth straight game in which a Rockies starter didn't reach the fifth inning. The club has only one victory by a starter in its last 23 games. That was by Francis, in a 4-2 decision at Arizona on July 25.
"It might not be what we're used to, but it's the situation we're in," Francis said after his 73-pitch outing. "We just keep pitching till they take the ball away. I felt like today I could have done more, but I'll be out there again soon."
Francis is 1-3 with a 6.89 ERA over his last seven outings, a stretch in which the eight-year veteran has allowed eight home runs – including a three-run shot in the first inning to the Dodgers' Matt Kemp. The Rockies have been outscored 17-4 in the first inning during Francis' 13 starts.
"I'm happy with my preparation, but my execution at times has been pretty bad and has cost me," Francis said. "When you give up three runs in the first inning, you just try to battle as best as you can."
Carlos Torres (1-1) took over in the fifth and found himself in a bases-loaded jam with no outs on Shane Victorino's single, a walk to Mark Ellis and an infield hit by Kemp to deep shortstop. The right-hander forced in the go-ahead run with a four-pitch walk to Hanley Ramirez, but rookie third baseman Jordan Pacheco snared a scorching line drive by Andre Ethier and then started a 5-4-3 double play on a grounder by Juan Rivera.
The Dodgers extended their margin to 6-3 with two sixth-inning runs off Torres. After Matt Treanor was hit by a pitch Chad Billingsley sacrificed him to second and Victorino singled him home. The "Flyin' Hawaiian" then scored all the way from first on Ellis' single to right-center.
Billingsley (8-9) shrugged off an inside-the-park home run by Eric Young Jr. on his fourth pitch of the game to win his fourth straight start. The right-hander was charged with four runs and seven hits in 6 1-3 innings and struck out five against a starting lineup that included five rookie position players.
The switch-hitting Young sped around the bases with his first career inside-the-park homer after driving a 2-1 pitch off the fence in center field and watching the ball bounce past Kemp and back toward the infield.
"It was exciting to run around the bases," Young said. "I put a good swing on it, saw the trajectory of it, and immediately put my head down thinking it was at least going to be a double. I knew he missed it, and rounding second I saw the third base coach was waving his arms like crazy, so I knew he was going for it and I wanted to make a final stretch for it."
The Dodgers, who were 0-for-18 with runners in scoring position during the first two games of the series, grabbed a 3-2 lead in the bottom half on Kemp's 17th homer – and his first with more than one runner aboard.
"I got a good pitch to hit," Kemp said. "I really haven't been hitting too well with runners in scoring position the last couple of days, so I needed to do something to help us get the momentum going. We haven't been getting runs in the first couple of innings, so we definitely got to start putting runs on the board early and put pressure on the other team. The home run put some runs on the board early and gave Chad a little cushion."
Billingsley has a 2.02 ERA in his last four starts, after going 0-5 with a 6.21 ERA in his previous five outings and landing on the disabled list because of elbow pain. He has never won more than four consecutive starts during his seven-year career.
Ronald Belisario relieved Billingsley with runners at first and second and gave up a single by Young. Ethier, who won his first gold Glove last season without committing en error, misplayed the ball – allowing DJ LeMahieu to score and trim the Dodgers' lead to 6-4. But Belisario pitched a hitless eighth and Kenley Jansen got three outs for his 22nd save in 28 attempts.
NOTES: Young's father hit two inside-the-park homers during his 15-year career. The first was against the Cubs' Dan Plesac at Coors Field on April 23, 1994, the other with Milwaukee against Jeff Austin on May 11, 2003 at Cincinnati. … Treanor couldn't contain his joy after his wife, Misty May-Treanor teamed up with Kerri Walsh Jennings to win their third straight Olympic gold medal in beach volleyball on Wednesday. "I didn't quite see the last few points, because we had a bad Internet connection," Treanor said before batting practice. "But as soon as we got it back, they were celebrating and she was screaming into the camera. So I knew that things were all good. I sent her an e-mail and I told her to wreck the town. When I get home tonight, I'll sit back and watch the end of the second game and probably do a little bit more crying, probably a lot of yelling." … Treanor isn't the only Dodger to be married to an Olympic gold medal winner. Former 1B Todd Zeile (1997-98), has been married for 23 years to Julianne McNamara, the first American female gymnast to win the all-around title (1980) and the female from the U.S. to earn a perfect 10.0 at the Summer Games. Former INF Nomar Garciaparra (2006-08) is married to Mia Hamm, a member of the 2004 gold medal-winning U.S. women's soccer team.
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Part of Karen Mulhallen Papers
January Accession, Boxes 1-9:
A collection of papers relating to the edition and publication of Descant, issues 111-115 (2000-2001). Includes author correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, production files, editorial correspondence and notes, subscription lists, and distribution files. Also includes materials relating to Mulhallens trip to Hungary in 2000, a manuscript of Stan Jonnanesen's "Sister Patsy", author photographs for use in Paper Guitar, a proof of the Descant index, donor files, photographs of events, and magnetic tape backups of computer files (issues 88-99 with gaps).
April-May Accession, Boxes 10-16:
Manuscripts and background materials for Mulhallen's War Surgery (1996), and materials for Descant 113-116, including author correspondence, manuscripts and editorial files.
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It was ridiculously hot on Sunday. Probably too hot to be going walking but I did anyway. Here are some photos I took on my wanderings between Henley and Marlow via Stonor and Hambledon.
Archives for June, 2011
Giant Bee
Breaking news! doof.me.uk brings you exclusive pictures of the GIANT BEE currently ravaging the countryside in the south of England! This blurry picture of the giant bee in the far distances was taken earlier this morning… If you see the bee do not approach! It may be dangerous!
On classical music
Now I'm not normally a fan of classical music, but this guy Max Richter, he makes some good tunes. In particular the ones on here and here.
In memoriam: the Corus pen
My beloved Corus pen has passed away. I acquired it over two years ago at a careers fair along with a steel pot of mints that was surprisingly hard to open. I've used it ever since, tucked in the spiral of my notebook. But finally it has run out of ink. It's been everywhere with […]
Urban Jungle
I took a break from exploring the wild lands of southern Oxfordshire yesterday and instead headed to nearby west London and walked along the Grand Union canal from Hayes to Alperton near Wembley. I can't say it was a particularly exciting walk and it intermittently rained which wasn't much fun. Still, I managed to take […]
Rye from above
I went to Rye yesterday with my family and there was the happy coincidence of a reasonably sunny day and the church tower being open! I haven't been up here since I was a sprog. Here we can see over the Romney marsh towards the sea and the local wind farm. The tower doesn't feel […]
Here's one I assembled earlier: I'm going on a camping trip in a few weeks. Sooo unprepared.


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The purpose of the endowment shall be to provide support for the University of Washington Libraries. It is the donor's intent that distributions from the endowment be used at the discretion of the Dean of Libraries to purchase books, periodicals, sets of collected works, paper, electronic, and all other information formats to support teaching, learning, research and clinical practice in the medical sciences of Allergy and Immunology.
Dr. Paul Parr VanArsdel, Jr., M.D. (1926-1994) joined the pioneering faculty of the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1954, as head of the Division of Allergy, a post he retained until his death. Allergy at that time was largely an imprecise science and his charge was to legitimize the study in collaboration with what was then a national scientific movement to achieve this goal. In addition to his own patient care and laboratory research, over the course of his career he trained more than 50 post-graduate Fellows, some of whom entered private practice, and many of whom went on to occupy chairs of Allergy at some of the nation's most prestigious medical schools, as well as international institutions. During more than 40 years of academic practice Dr. VanArsdel published more than 150 scientific papers and an influential Allergy textbook.
Dr. VanArsdel was a designated founder of the University of Washington's University Hospital, where he later served as Chief of Staff from 1983 to 1985. Additionally, he served on the medical staffs of Harborview Medical Center, Children's Hospital, and the Veteran's Administration Hospital, all located in Seattle. He also held visiting appointments at the Brompton Teaching Hospital for Bronchial Disease in London from 1977 to 1978; served as Visiting Professor of Medicine at Guy's Hospital of the University of London from 1986 to 1987; and was a board member of the International College of Allergology.
Dr. VanArsdel was a member of the American College of Physicians; the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology (national president, 1971-1972); the Royal Society of Medicine, London; the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association (1972-1994);and the Association of American Medical Colleges. Memberships included: Phi Beta Kappa (Yale University); Sigma Xi, scientific honorary; and Alpha Omega Alpha, medical honorary. He was a graduate of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Class of 1950.


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Hi Hungry Girl, I really love your baked French fries made from butternut squash. So cool! I'm wondering if you've ever tried making fries with other veggies or different types of potatoes? Baking in Birmingham
I am a French-fry-aholic, so I love this question -- it inspired me to get in the kitchen with different items and test 'em out. I did a little research and found that the basic method I use for Bake-tastic Butternut Squash Fries works pretty well with all of them. Here are some very valuable findings, straight from the HG HQ! Sweet Potatoes & Yams - No surprise, these are delicious and bake up nice and crispy. And the stats aren't too bad, with 24 - 33 calories per ounce. But it is EXTREMELY important to weigh your spuds if you are counting calories. My sweet potato was large -- a whopping 20 ounces (480 calories)! And the medium-sized yam I got weighed in at 12 ounces (396 calories). Russet Potatoes - If you crave real potato French fries, bake these into fries instead of hitting the drive-thru! About 22 calories per ounce. But just like the others, you MUST weigh these things. The potato I bought weighed in at 12 ounces, for a total of 264 calories. Carrots - Really sweet and delicious and a LOT easier to prep than the squash options. They didn't get super-crispy, but their low calorie count (12 per ounce) made up for it. I cooked up 6 medium carrots (12 ounces) to get a good serving size -- so only 144 calories total. Turnips - I took a chance on these things, and it COMPLETELY paid off. They tasted really good -- ever-so-slightly like cabbage (which is only a problem if you're sensitive to that flavor!). The baked fries were a touch floppy, but still impressive overall. And turnips are crazy-low in calories (8 per ounce). My turnip weighed 12 ounces -- just 96 calories!!! But be sure to scrub your turnips very well or peel them. Fuji Apples - Two words: EPIC FAIL. Sure, the baked apple spears tasted good, despite their limp texture. And the stats are fine, just 15 calories per ounce. (About 120 calories in an 8-ounce apple.) But a French fry swap they aren't. No biggie. Still love ya, Fujis!!! So what have we learned? Take advantage of those supermarket scales and WEIGH YOUR PRODUCE. And, um, try the turnip fries... DO IT! P.S. In case you're wondering, my beloved kabocha and butternut squash have 10 - 13 calories per ounce... which is a good thing, since they're typically gigantic!
HG!!! I am a big fan of yours. I have all your cookbooks! I have several questions for you. 1.) Since many of your recipes are under 300 calories, does the new 300 Under 300 cookbook contain a lot of repeats from previous books? 2.) Can I still get in on the pre-order promotion? I heard a rumor that all the freebie offers are gone! 3.) Are you doing a big book tour this year? I see some events posted, but not as many as usual. 4.) Finally, can you tell me anything else about the book!? SPILL! Super-Fan in Fresno
Hi Super-Fan,
Wow, thank you! I have answers for every one of your Qs... and I think they'll make you happy! Here goes... 1.) Not a single recipe in the new book, Hungry Girl 300 Under 300, has appeared in any other HG book. In fact, more than HALF of the recipes are BRAND NEW -- as in NEVER BEFORE SEEN in an HG email, an episode of the HG show, etc. That's over 150 newbies! Cool, huh!? 2.) The "All That and a Bag of Chips!" promotion has ended, but there are still some AMAZING deals online! 3.) I am doing several book-signing events but, you're right, not as many as in previous years. Why? Because I'm gearing up to start filming the second season of the Hungry Girl TV show. I'll be in NY, NJ, FL, CA, MN, and TN. Click here to see the tour info... I hope you can make it to one of the events! 4.) I know I say this about every HG book, but 300 Under 300 may be my favorite EVER. For starters, it's enormous! There are 560 pages of recipes for BREAKFAST (Giant oatmeal bowls! Pancakes! Egg mugs & scrambles!), LUNCH & DINNER (BIG salads! Sandwiches! Stir-frys!), and STARTERS, SOUPS & SIDES (Mexican pot stickers! Manhattan clam chowder! Butternut biscuits!). Plus, there are 75+ three-ingredient recipes, featuring HOT DOGS, NOODLES, CHICKEN, and more! There are full-color photos of more than sixty of the recipes in the book, plus super-helpful sidebars, prep & cook times, those nifty "you'll need" lists for each recipe... I could go on and on. I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!
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The truth shall set you free, including the truth about Social Security
A Ponzi scheme is a pretty simple animal: You pay old investors using money put in by new investors. When you run out of new investors, nobody gets paid.
Social security is also a simple animal: We pay old taxpayers money put in by new taxpayers. Because there are more old taxpayers than there are new taxpayers, and because these old taxpayers no longer contribute much, if anything, to the pot, pretty soon nobody gets paid.
Ponzi schemes cannot be reformed. They are inherently flawed. Their painful death is inevitable, since it is programmed into their composition. We know with certainty that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. It always has and it always will. We also know with certainty that Ponzi schemes inevitably run out of money.
Perry used his prominence to state something that all honest people know to be true: Social Security is inherently unsustainable. It's not a fraud, but it's destined to failure. As demographics change, and as we suffer through the repercussions of the Stimulus, that failure will occur sooner, rather than later. No amount of tweaking will prevent that from happening. The only way to "fix" Social Security is to do away with it: give some lump sum payment to those who already depend on it, give phased out payments to this who are uncomfortably close to depending on it, and tell everyone else "We're sorry we screwed you."
As far as I'm concerned, Perry gets big kudos for having the honesty to take his high-profile and use it to announce that the Emperor has no clothes.


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Oregonians have until April 30 to enroll in a health insurance plan under Cover Oregon. The state is granting residents another month because of technical problems with the state's health exchange.
The state announced a "special enrollment period" for Oregonians last week. That means residents will have more time to apply for a health plan through Cover Oregon.
Nearly 180,000 Oregonians have enrolled in coverage through Cover Oregon and over 56,000 of those enrolled in private health plans.
Amy Fauver is with Cover Oregon. She says the state has seen a spike in applications because of the extended deadline.
"Though we encourage people to apply now you know, and to not wait until the end of that period, but to get in their applications in as soon as possible," Fauver says. "If Oregonians apply through Cover Oregon by April 30 and then enroll in a plan, they will not be subject to the federal tax penalty."
Fauver says the state is rolling out a last minute one million dollar ad campaign to boost enrollments.
People can apply online or submit a paper application.
This story originally appeared on Oregon Public Broadcasting.


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Biology's Theme Park: RNA World
People love theme parks, giant playgrounds that usually offer patchwork renditions of either an evocative historical moment or a particular future vision. Rarely, if ever, are theme parks built around a biological theme – and never do such parks fit inside a test tube. Almost never. Scientist David Bartel is hard at work on what might seem an impossibility – a microscopic theme park whose motif, the origins of life, is of equal interest to both scientists and philosophers.
|A 3D structure of RNA.
Credit: SpaceDaily
Bartel, a researcher at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, pursues a theory of early evolution called the "RNA-world hypothesis," which maintains that, in the beginning, long before DNA or protein existed, RNA performed both DNA's job of encoding information and protein's job of catalyzing replication. Because RNA replication is far simpler than protein replication, and because RNA participates in central cellular functions, researchers postulate a primitive, yet elegant, system in which RNA made RNA.
Central to this hypothesis is an RNA enzyme that replicates other RNA molecules. Unfortunately, no such molecule currently exists in nature. To demonstrate the feasibility of this hypothesis, researchers must re-create certain aspects of this RNA world in the lab. Hence Bartel's RNA theme park. According to Bartel, the micro exhibits in his lab are "artificial and fragmented when compared with the real thing, but still well worth a visit."
So far, Bartel has developed some impressive displays. In a paper published in the journal Science in 2001, his lab demonstrated one of the first pieces of hard evidence that such a world is at least possible. But this landmark paper also revealed that Bartel's RNA molecules didn't yet perform to the degree that the RNA world would have required. In a July 2003 follow-up in the journal Biochemistry, Bartel and doctoral student Michael Lawrence published research pinpointing the exact reason for this, findings Bartel claims are "an important step toward figuring out how to improve the efficiency of these RNA replicating molecules."
Re-evolving evolution
Today, cellular machinery coordinates a sophisticated process that involves proteins, DNA, and RNA all working in concert, with proteins typically serving as enzymes to catalyze reactions, and DNA and RNA storing and processing genetic information. If, as the RNA-world hypothesis states, RNA once was in the business of replicating RNA, then enzymes once were composed entirely of RNA and not amino acids – the building blocks of protein. The first step then, in creating an RNA-world theme park, is to create RNA enzymes from scratch. To do this, Bartel employs a process developed with Harvard Medical School's Jack Szostak: in vitro evolution – or evolution in a test tube.
|A single ribosome, a tiny factory that cells use to make proteins, is usually 25-30 nanometers wide. 200 nanometers is the smallest size for life as we know it.
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Workers in Bartel's lab fill tubes with anywhere from 1 trillion to 1 quadrillion RNA molecules, selecting for those that can expand by forming chemical bonds with other RNAs. The molecules that can do this are isolated; the rest are discarded. These new, bigger RNAs are multiplied, returned to the tube and tested again for the same ability. Again, losers are removed, and winners multiplied. As this cycle repeats, slight mutations often appear in the RNAs, some of which create molecules superior to the parent molecule. Says Bartel, "Really, we end up selecting for the survival of the best molecules, and then propagating those survivors" – Darwinian natural selection.
So far, Bartel's lab has demonstrated that these new RNA molecules can act as enzymes: In this case, they can bind to an RNA template molecule that serves as the pattern for producing, one nucleotide at a time, another RNA. The Science paper reported both good and cautionary news. The good news was that these RNA enzymes are flexible and robust enough to bind to just about any kind of template regardless of its sequence – findings that eluded earlier experiments. The more sobering news was that these new sequences of RNA are at most 14 nucleotides long, which, while still a major achievement, is far short of the roughly 200-nucleotide goal. As reported in Biochemistry, Bartel and Lawrence have now learned the reason for this: The actual process of assembling the new RNA is fast and efficient once binding occurs, but the binding doesn't last long enough to produce a complete replicate. "What we really need now," says Bartel, "is to work on the binding."
Life was a garbage bag
Less than four decades old, the RNA-world hypothesis has garnered widespread support within the scientific community. However, some researchers subscribe to an alternate view often called the "metabolism first" theory. This idea, in contrast to the RNA world's "information first" thesis, posits that a chaotic soup of small, random molecules led to chance metabolic reactions that evolved into modern cellular life.
Stuart Kauffman, a biologist and RNA-world skeptic affiliated with the nonprofit research center Santa Fe Institute, believes the RNA hypothesis is narrow and fails to take into account the possibility that other polymeric molecules may be able to self-reproduce without making a copy of a template. He theorizes that life originated from a complex mixture of such polymers that eventually yielded autocatalytic reactions.
|Freeman Dyson, physicist, educator, author Image Credit: Trustees of Dartmouth College
A similar notion is Freeman Dyson's "garbage bag" hypothesis. Dyson, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, N.J., believes that primordial soup was filled with membranes (garbage bags) that contained random chemicals not nearly as complex as RNA or DNA. These chemicals began catalyzing reactions in each other, some of which eventually caused the cell-like garbage bags to divide and thus evolve.
Proponents of this view claim the key factor in early evolution is the garbage bag rather than the molecule. For University of California, Santa Cruz, chemistry professor David Deamer, it's inconceivable that RNA could have catalyzed and evolved outside the barrier of a cell membrane without just drifting off.
Bartel, rather than countering these critics, takes seriously the need for some kind of cell-like barrier – or garbage bag. "If our lab is able to demonstrate that RNA can replicate RNA, a next step would be to synthesize a self-replicating system that can also evolve," he says. "To do this would require membranes, or some other type of compartmentalization."
Harvard's Szostak, a prominent advocate of the RNA world, counters that he can't imagine a system as complex as cell formation and division not being preceded by some sort of informational transmission, such as RNA creating RNA. However, he adds that the RNA-world hypothesis isn't without its problems. "The big question," he says, "is whether RNA arose as the first genetic polymer from some prebiotic chemistry that we don't understand, or whether there were one or more progenitors of RNA. People are looking at many possible candidates for being a progenitor for RNA."
Szostak looks not to a world of random metabolism, but rather to threose nucleic acid, or TNA, a molecule that, while not existing in nature, has been successfully synthesized in the lab. Szostak believes that TNA's relatively simple composition make it a likely candidate to have spawned RNA in a prebiotic world.
In spite of the various theories, most researchers readily admit that, like the proverbial blind men trying to describe an elephant, each approach may have captured only one angle of life's origins. "We'll never really know the whole story of how life got started," says Bartel, "but every insight that we can discover is important. This is one of the most significant and fundamental questions in science, right up there with 'how does the mind work?' or 'how did the universe begin?'"
Meanwhile, Bartel and his team continue working toward their goal of developing an RNA enzyme that can fully replicate other RNAs. "We're designing these RNAs as well as we can," Bartel says, "and what we can't design, we evolve."
The more successful this re-evolving, the closer he gets to his theme park's grand opening.


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As three abducted Israeli teens ended their first week of captivity, communities from across Canada and around the world held vigils, gathered in solidarity and said prayers for their safe return.
From Vancouver to Halifax, Jews gath-ered in support of Gilad Shaar, 16, Naftali Frenkel, 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19, who were kidnapped by suspected Hamas terrorists while hitchhiking near Hebron June 12.
It was the kind of outpouring of sup-port not seen since Jewish communities around the world rallied for Gilad Schalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas in 2006 in a raid near Israel's border with Gaza.
The largest of the events was held June 19 in the Toronto area, where as many as 1,000 people came together at the Schwartz/Reisman Centre at the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Jewish Community Campus. The rally was sponsored by UJA Federation of Greater Toronto in conjunction with the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA).
In Montreal, about 400 people attended a June 15 prayer vigil at Congregation Beth Israel-Beth Aaron in Côte St. Luc. The vigil was sponsored by Israeli Consul General Joel Lion in co-operation with CIJA.
Chana Landau, a relative living in Montreal, relayed the thanks of the Frenkel family to Jews around the world for their expressions of solidarity.
Chaviva Lifson read a message of gratitude from the Shaar family, who live a block from her sister in Israel.
Rabbi Reuben Poupko of Congregation Beth Israel-Beth Aaron said the perpetrators of the abductions are likely similar to those causing havoc in many parts of the world today.
"You know who they are from every headline in the newspaper. They're the same people who kidnapped girls in Ni-geria, the same ones who attack an air-port in Karachi, Pakistan, the same ones who terrorize Somalia and Sudan, who butcher civilians in Syria, and who are destroying Iraq," Rabbi Poupko said.
"But when they hurt a Jew, all of a sudden, the world gets confused and bewildered, and they lose their moral compass."
Other Montreal speakers included Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz of Congregation Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem and Federation CJA president Susan Laxer.
In Toronto, MP and former justice minister Irwin Cotler recounted his visit to Israel when news of the teens' abduction broke. Reports in Israeli newspapers were dominated "by a sense of angst and anguish," Cotler stated. While it was reported only as a footnote in the western media, in Israel it rekindled memories of the Schalit abduction, which captured the nation's attention.
Cotler attributed the kidnapping to Hamas, pointing out the Islamic terrorist group is pledged to destroy Israel and kill Jews. He noted that even before the kidnappings, Israeli media reported that security forces had foiled 44 attempts to kidnap Israelis in the last year alone.
He said former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, whom he met during his visit, stressed how important it was for his family and for him to know that Jews from around the world were rallying to his cause when he was in a Soviet prison.
Cotler said the operation to locate the teens is code-named "I am my brothers' keeper," and Israelis of all denominations are united in praying for the boys' safe return.
Demonstrating support for the families of the three victims was a key motivation for many of those at the rally. Dan Kiselvich and Noy Goldenberg came with their own home-made sign calling for the freedom of the teens.
"I'm here to support the three teenagers," said Kiselvich, a native of Israel. "I want my brothers returned home."
Claire Braseliten said she came "to show support for the boys and to demonstrate "that the Jewish community stands together. We feel this episode is abhorrent. As a parent and as a new grandparent, it is very scary. Other than that, every Jewish child is our child. Just like Gilad Schalit, who was everybody's child."
"Those kids could have been any of ours," Roz Lofsky said. "We all feel for those boys and we want to show solidarity with them."
"We're here to say that we are in sup-port of those parents so they know they are not alone," added Gladys Isenberg.
In Toronto, Conservative MP Mark Adler brought greetings from Prime Minister Stephen Harper and drew a loud round of applause when he said, "Canada will stand with Israel through fire and water."
The government is "deeply concerned" by the kidnappings, he said, adding he had spoken to Harper and Foreign Minister John Baird, both of whom "were concerned for the safety and security of the boys."
He called on the Palestinian Authority to disarm Hamas, take control of smuggling tunnels in Gaza and demonstrate its commitment to peace by reuniting the boys with their families.
Other speakers included Consul General DJ Schneeweiss. Sports journalist Elliotte Friedman served as emcee.
In addition to members of the Jewish community, the event was attended by Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria, vice-president of the World Sikh Organization of Canada for the Ontario region.
Messages of support were received from the United Macedonians Organization of Canada and from Dominic Campione, past national president of the National Congress of Italian Canadians, which represents 1.4 million Canadians of Italian origin.
"Our prayers and thoughts are united for the safe return of the three missing teens and we are united with you, the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and CIJA, the teens' families, and the people of Israel in this most important healing and communal gathering," Campione said in a message read at the vigil.
In Halifax, Rabbi Ari Isenberg, spiritual leader of Shaar Shalom Congregation, in conjunction with CIJA officiated at a community-wide "Vigil of Hope For The Safe Return of Our Boys" on Shabbat.
At the same time, Rabbi Amram Maccabi of the Beth Israel Synagogue said special prayers for the abducted teens.
On the west coast, the Rabbinical Association of Vancouver, with support from the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver and other community organizations, sponsored a community prayer service at the Jewish Community Centre.
Valder Belgrave, a spokesperson for the federation in Vancouver, said "our sympathies are with the families, and it's sad that they are drawn into the larger issue. They're innocent victims in the larger scheme of things."
In Hamilton, Temple Anshe Sholom, in conjunction with the Hamilton Jewish Federation, hosted a community gathering "in solidarity with the families of the three Israeli students."
In Winnipeg, congregations Shaarey Zedek, Etz Chayim, Herzlia-Adas Yeshu-run, Chevra Mishnayes and Temple Shalom co-sponsored a prayer vigil in conjunction with the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg.
The vigil, held at the Shaarey Zedek synagogue, included a candlelighting ceremony, the recitation of psalms, a prayer for captives, the singing of Hatikvah and cantorial renditions of Acheinu Kol Beit Yisrael (All Israel are Brothers) and Bring Back our Boys, a song written in the last week in Israel.
About 70 people attended the event, said Rena Elbaze, Jewish engagement specialist at the Winnipeg Federation.
Elbaze said the participation of a range of community organizations spanning a variety of denominations shows "we pray as a community and we're united as a community when faced with these problems.
"We prayed for the sake of the boys, but also to make people present feel they are not alone and to show the families of the people who were kidnapped that people care about them."
Organizers also used social media to send out calls for prayers and support for the victims' families, Elbaze added.
In Toronto, supporters of the abducted boys were asked to use the hashtag #JewishToronto "to send a message of support to the families of the abducted teens," said federation spokesperson Dan Horowitz. "It garnered 242 personal notes. We are now compiling those messages into a document which will be sent to the families as a demonstration of support and solidarity.
"We leveraged Facebook as a tool to quickly and easily facilitate this initiative within a small, local population. Within just a few days, this single Facebook post received 1,478 likes and was shared 203 times," he said.
With files from Janice Arnold in Montreal.


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Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus Top People's Richest Teen Celebs List
From the days of Rudolph Valentino, Judy Garland, and young Frank Sinatra, teen idols have been big business — and thanks to the latest edition of PEOPLE magazine's richest teen celebs list, we know business is still booming.
The names on PEOPLE'S list shouldn't surprise anyone who pays attention to pop music — the biggest teen earners include Nick Jonas, Willow and Jaden Smith, and Selena Gomez. And at the top? Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus, of course.
Bieber took the crown, pulling in $53 million during a year that saw him popping up on the road, on TV, and — thanks to his 'Never Say Never' concert film — in theaters. Miley was close behind, earning $48 million from projects like her Gypsy Heart tour.
Bieber and Cyrus' earnings far outpaced their peers — Nick Jonas took in $12.5 million, while Bieber's lady love, Selena Gomez, topped out at $5.5 million. Let's hope those kids are investing wisely!


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Jehora Jeheyu is a strong monotheistic deity, but JJ Paladins lose all benefit from . Jehora never actually deducts piety, and does not protect you from his random fits of "boredom", so all you receive is the boon cost discount. This still isn't a bad deal, and getting earlier in particular is quite useful. Paladins of Jehora Jeheyu can more easily obtain multiple uses of his boosts and can have massive health and mana values.
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Paladins are state-sanctioned spiritual warriors who can smack foes across the head with either sword or scripture depending on what the situation demands. They tend to be unbearably smug about it.
HOLY WORK is the Paladin's defining double-edged class feature, which balances the inability to convert against lower piety costs and an immunity to punishment. Being unable to convert forces the Paladin to use deities monotheistically, which means that deities which normally rely on conversion need to be used differently. However, the Paladin's immunity to punishment compensates for this in two ways, firstly, you don't get punished for angering gods at 0 , which means that a Paladin does not need to worry about getting locked out of piety gain (especially relevant with Binlor Ironshield and The Earthmother) and can take actions most classes would need indulgences for. Secondly, any piety lost when a Paladin is at 0 effectively isn't lost, which can radically increase your overall piety gain with some gods. Lastly, the lower piety cost of boons allows you to get more stat-boosting boons or to get major boons faster, as well as to store up more one-off boons for use against bosses. While the Paladin's other traits primarily encourage his use as a melee fighter, HOLY WORK makes him more or less as versatile as your proficiency with the gods and understanding of piety gain and loss will allow.
HOLY HANDS both starts the Paladin with HALPMEH and lets him restore 1 extra HP/level with it. This complements his physical resistance and encourages regen-fighting, as he gets more usefulness (against non-magical monsters) from each HP restored by it than a character without resistances would. It also lets the Paladin effectively regen-fight against Poisonous monsters such as the Serpent without needing to level up to clear poison afterwards, as well as letting him return to full health without using as much black space as most classes would. HOLY SHIELD gives the Paladin 25% physical resistance, which makes the Paladin generally favour physical attackers (for instance, Gorgon or Serpent) over magical ones (such as Warlock or Wraith), and also encourages the Paladin to be careful about racking up an unclearable number of layers of Curse.
While the most obvious locker item for a Paladin is the Dragon Shield, since it boosts his resistances substantially and complements the resistance building several deities offer him, specific god strategies reward a variety of preps. Binlor Ironshield Paladins can get a lot of use out of the Rock Heart (to effectively convert piety to health and mana), Dracul Paladins out of the Vampiric Blade and Glowing Guardian Paladins out of the Fire Heart. The Earthmother Paladins can get some mileage out of the Platemail combined with Vine Form. If focussing on HALPMEH, the paladin benefits enormously from the Soul Orb to grant immunity to Mana Burn. Non-human paladins will generally prefer the attack booster preparation to increase their attack damage. Paladins tend to favour more balanced builds than other melee characters, juggling resistances, mana, health and damage bonuses as well as piety gain and boon use.
Due to his inability to convert and other religion-focused class features, the Paladin plays very differently based on which deity he chooses to worship.
Glowing Guardian
The Glowing Guardian is one of the strongest deity choices for a Paladin for a plethora of reasons. Item conversion can fuel early-game absolutions, which benefit enormously from the favorable rounding of the reduced piety cost. A GG Paladin does not need to worry about his crippling punishment and can use health and mana potions after consuming all his piety, HALPMEH allows you to deliberately poison yourself for extra piety gain and an early Enlightenment can really add to the Paladin's strength. He also avoids the usual problem worshipers of the Glowing Guardian face, overshooting the 100 for Enlightenment and wasting much of their piety gain. With a cost of 80 , this is unlikely to happen to the Paladin. Cleansing is superb for physically-driven Paladins, allowing him to break through enemies with physical resistance or clear unwanted debuffs after fighting Corrosive or Weakening foes. The use of poison effects, Life steal, or BLUDTUPOWA hit your piety reserves much too hard, and you should avoid using them even with your protection from punishment.
The Dracul Paladin has similar advantages to Glowing Guardian, in that he can combine Blood Swell, Bloodpools and even Life steal with healing potions and HALPMEH that are normally despised by this deity. The Dracul Paladin has a harder early game, since his piety gain is scarcer and Sanguine in particular can really hurt your max HP. His late game is comparably strong, with his +15/15 resistances complimenting the Paladin's natural physical resistance, over-heal to circumvent lower max health and the ton of extra health offered by Sanguine and repeated use of Blood Swell. Taking out Undead monsters (especially in the late game) in rounds after using up your piety is very helpful for avoiding piety loss. Bringing in a Vampiric Blade can help with Dracul's low early piety gain.
Tikki Tooki
Tikki Tooki also offers very useful boons throughout the game and the Paladin benefits substantially from not having to risk his often unmanageable punishments through carelessness. The main issue with TT and particularly a prepped TT is that an incautious Paladin can hemorrhage piety in the mid-game, which will hurt their net piety gain, especially if the Paladin wants to leverage their physical resistances or save up for fairly high-cost second ranks of boons.
Paladins of Taurog are unable to convert out, which makes Taurog's function as a piety farm irrelevant if not paired with the Pactmaker, but compensate for this with a very strong early game on account of how quickly the -20% piety cost lets them rack up Taurog's gear, and the fact that with good timing they can combine spellcasting with high-damage attacks in the early game. The +15/15% resistances from Taurog complement the Paladin's own, and that of any gear he may find or prep, and the +20% damage bonus from Taurog's boons is very useful for a melee class without any built-in damage bonus. Taurog Paladins are not punished for converting Taurog's gear. While this should be avoided until you've definitely used every death protection you can, in an absolutely desperate case it can push you over a conversion threshold, which might clinch a very close game. The Paladin can get more death protections than any other Taurog user for a massive end game spike.
Mystera Annur
Mystera Annur is one of the most disappointing choices for a Paladin, since she offers no obvious synergy with his class features, and her piety gain is generous enough that he'll rarely get to or need to leverage Holy Work. Getting refreshment early is nice, but since HALPMEH already costs 5 mana he gets no particular value out of mystic balance and flames works completely counter to his usual approach.
The Earthmother
The Earthmother is a tricky but rewarding deity for a Paladin to use, since his reduced piety cost interacts well with Vine Form and Clearance, and she offers a lot of extra XP over the game. However, plant generation can create serious mobility problems, especially when Earthmother is prepped. Using the Paladin's immunity to punishment to completely clear out plants when your piety runs low is an excellent approach. As with Binlor and Taurog, other classes tend to favour using EM as part of a conversion strategy, but unlike Binlor and Taurog her synergies with the paladin are not so immediately obvious. Three things to note are that a prepped Soul Orb allows a paladin to clear out almost all plants effortlessly, using early Vine Form and Greenblood will give you a major leg up and that an Earthmother Paladin can liberally use IMAWAL followed by Entanglement midfight as a reliable slow for the cost of 5 and an extra wall in the dungeon when other classes would be more worried about blocking themselves in. The key to effective Earthmother Paladin use is well-timed gardening and generating piety a little at a time to fuel your boons.
Binlor Ironshield
Paladins of Binlor Ironshield tend to work in more or less the opposite manner to most Binlor devotees, focusing on clearing out their piety reserves before a level-up to avoid the -10 hit. A well-managed Binlor Paladin will thus have 80-90 more piety to spare over a game than other Binlor users. The Binlor Paladin can compliment their physical resists with magic resists, as well as getting good functionality out of the very powerful Stone Form and Stone Fist boons. The Stone Skin boon, with its reduced cost, is particularly useful. Once he has knockback, a Paladin can regain piety almost as quickly as he spends it, letting him perpetually keep his physical resists maxed out while building up more magic resistance. While Binlor Paladins don't really want to be locked out of boons by using up all of a level's walls, they aren't in any danger of punishment if they do. Additionally, while most Binlor devotees tend to convert out to more attractive late-game deities before their piety gain is superseded by wall loss, Binlor's Paladins instead rely on the very useful late-game Stone Skin (65% phys res. and Might for 12 ) and rocketing Magic resist. Binlor paladins can use IMAWAL to build a wall without punishment, thus using spare piety at level end to provide extra walls for knockback, piety generation or boon fuel.
Jehora Jeheyu
Jehora Jeheyu is a strong monotheistic deity, but JJ Paladins lose all benefit from HOLY WORK. Jehora never actually deducts piety, and HOLY WORK does not protect you from his random fits of "boredom", so all you receive is the boon cost discount. This still isn't a bad deal, and getting Petition earlier in particular is quite useful. Paladins of Jehora Jeheyu can more easily obtain multiple uses of his boosts and can have massive health and mana values.
The Pactmaker
The Pactmaker still functions for the Paladin, and this is the only case where the Paladin can benefit from multiple deities in the same dungeon run, but he receives no discount on the cost of Pacts. Paladins can often push pact use a little more confidently than other classes, since they're unconcerned about punishment. The Body Pact in particular is a powerful choice, building on the Paladin's natural resistances, and works particularly well with Taurog, who offers too much piety for the Paladin to actually use and other sources of resistances to stack with this Pact.


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The eight-core microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices based on the Bulldozer micro-architecture that feature Orochi design will get massive internal cache systems compared to current-generation of chips. In total, the top-of-the-range single-die processor will have 16MB of cache.
AMD Orochi chip (which is a universal server and client design that will power Valencia, Zambezi and possibly other implementations of first-gen Bulldozer family) will have 8MB unified level-three cache, according to a document seen by X-bit labs. Since eight-core Orochi features four dual-core Bulldozer modules, each of which is believed to have 2MB of shared level-two cache, the whole chip will pack in whopping 16MB of SRAM, a 77% increase from the current six-core microprocessors that have 9MB of cache in total.
Large L2 caches will help AMD's next-generation microprocessors to ensure higher performance in single-threaded applications compared to today's multi-core chips that only have 512KB of L2, whereas massive L3 cache will maximize memory bandwidth. In both cases this will bring notable performance gains compared to today's Stars/Greyhound architecture.
AMD Orochi design is the company's next-generation processor for high-end desktop and server markets. The chip will feature eight processing engines, but since it is based on Bulldozer micro-architecture, those cores will be packed into four modules. Every module which will have two independent integer cores (that will share fetch, decode and L2 functionality) with dedicated schedulers, one floating point unit with two 128-bit FMAC pipes with one FP scheduler. The chip will have shared L3 cache, new dual-channel DDR3 memory controller and will use HyperTransport 3.1 bus. The Orochi chips will use new AM3+ form-factor and will require brand new platforms.
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Paul Beck, Ohio State University professor, describes the importance of winning Ohio, a battleground with a large number of electoral votes. It's a diverse state with liberals and conservatives matching a cross section of the nation.
Hurricane Sandy is barreling toward the East Coast and could deliver the presidential campaign an unpredictable, but impactful, October surprise.
It remains too early to determine precisely where Sandy will make landfall or just how severe the storm might be, but the projections for its path have it aimed toward the mid-Atlantic region, likely impacting hotly-contested battleground states.
Sandy was briefly downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm by the NHC early Saturday, but it returned to hurricane strength within a few hours.
Extensive damage, power outages, and the resulting news coverage could push the election into the background, at least in that region, and could wreak havoc on campaign plans for the final week of the race between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Travel schedules, television advertising buys, and voter outreach could all be impacted … and in some cases, already have been.
A Romney official said Friday that the campaign is keeping a very close eye on the storm and had already decided to cancel a planned rally on Sunday night in Virginia Beach. Vice President Joe Biden also cancelled a Virginia Beach event on Saturday, and a rally for First Lady Michelle Obama planned for Tuesday at the University of New Hampshire in Durham was also canceled, officials said Friday.
Said the Obama campaign of the change in the vice president's schedule, "This ... is being taken out of an abundance of caution to ensure that all local law enforcement and emergency management resources can stay focused on ensuring the safety of people who might be impacted by the storm."
After strong winds and heavy rain washed out bridges and damaged homes in multiple countries, the hurricane looks toward the northeastern U.S.
It isn't yet clear whether Sandy will affect Obama's scheduled events with former president Bill Clinton in Florida and Virginia on Monday.
Since March, the two presidential campaigns and outside groups have invested $144 million in radio and TV ads in Virginia, with $27 million spent just in the past two weeks. Virginia ranks third in the amount of presidential campaign advertising, after Ohio and Florida.
If local TV stations in Virginia interrupt their regularly scheduled programming in order to broadcast bulletins and live coverage of the storm's impact, then a campaign ad which had been booked for a specific time on a specific station would not air.
The station would refund the money paid for the ad, but at this point in the election season, campaigns don't want their money back -- they want their ads to run.
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Of course, even if stations do run those already-booked campaign ads, thousands of Virginia homes might be without power … and millions of dollars in ad buys could be still wasted.
After the intense "derecho" storm swept through the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region with 70-mile-per-hour winds on June 29, electricity for millions of customers was effectively knocked out.
In some areas around Washington, D.C., power was out for a week. And outages in Virginia due to Sandy could conceivably last into Election Day itself.
Voting requires polling locations which have the lights on and aren't under water, so this storm also raises the question of how election officials are preparing to ensure that balloting isn't disrupted on Election Day.
Mitt Romney has just wrapped up what his campaign billed a major economic speech, at the heart of his closing arguments. Democratic strategist Elmendorf, Romney campaign economic adviser Vin Weber and The Economist's Greg Ip break it down.
According to Virginia State Board of Elections spokeswoman Nikki Sheridan, the board has been coordinating with the state Department of Emergency Management, the Virginia State Police, the state Department of Transportation, major utility companies, and the 134 voting registrars who administer the election across the state "to monitor the weather situation and, if necessary … act accordingly."
The board has told local election officials that "unless conditions render the voting process unsafe" for employees and voters, registrars should keep their offices "open and to continue the in-person voting process" already underway in the state.
The final decision whether to close a general registrar's office "will be made by local authorities or first responders after consultation with your office and electoral board," the board said.
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In a press conference Friday afternoon, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Romney supporter, said, "There are obviously concerns about making sure we're ready for Election Day which will only be a week after the departure of this storm."
He said that the president of Dominion Power, the state's major power provider, has told him that the utility would add election locations "as a top priority for power restoration in addition to hospitals and schools and so forth, so I think that is prudent as well, but we don't anticipate adverse election issues at this time."
The candidates crisscross the country hitting the battleground states trying to lock up key electoral votes and Domenico demonstrates the electronic map to 270.
He said the electric utility had a "well-thought out set of priorities for what to restore" and "at this point I don't see anything happening that would interfere with the election."
He also said "I expect both candidates and both parties to monitor the situation and if they think they're going to be interfering with first responder operations" to cancel their Virginia campaign events. "They're not going to get coverage and they're not going to get people coming out (to events) because they're not going to stand out in the rain so they'd be smart to make alternative plans."
Ross Goldstein, deputy administrator of the Maryland Board of Elections, said Friday, "We're in contact with state emergency management. We've given utility companies a list of polling locations so that they know where our needs are."
He added that "all of our voting equipment has battery backup," but noted that, obviously, electricity would be needed to keep the lights on at polling locations.
As in Virginia, Maryland voters have the option of early voting, beginning in the state on Saturday, with one-to-five polling places per county.
In a conference call on Friday, elections officials in Maryland and eight other East Coast states conferred with Louisiana Commissioner of Elections Angie Rogers to find out what officials in her state have learned from coping with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and other subsequent storms.
Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler said Friday that contingency plans must be made for both before and after Election Day.
Obama campaign co-chair Kal Penn joins Andrea Mitchell Reports to discuss the youth vote in the 2012 election.
"Number one, before the storm, secure the (voting) equipment, move it if necessary, get it out of harm's way," he said.
"Number two, get good information on where your poll workers are going to be, make sure you have their cell numbers and evacuation plans so you can get in touch with them if you've moved a precinct," he said.
"Then after the storm, determine if your locations are still viable and usable and if they're not, make sure you move and consolidate precincts. We did that here in Louisiana with the big mayoral election after Katrina. As long as you have locations, power and equipment or paper ballots -- you can still have the election and go forward," he added.
Schedler said another tip for elections officials in storm-affected areas: "Make sure you have a good relationship with the National Guard in your state. Here in Louisiana we used the National Guard to set up large tents for 'mega-sites.' They provided us generators. And think about public restrooms, you may need to bring in some Portalets (portable toilets) when setting up as site like that. You need to anticipate just like you do in any emergency."
He also suggested that state officials in Sandy's path urge people to vote early.
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When Juleen Jackson met her husband, Al, he was not the man she had pictured marrying. The African-American Al Jackson was gripping a beer at a bar.
"I was holding my beer and I had the beer of a buddy out on the dance floor," Al Jackson told Kate Snow in an interview airing Thursday, Aug. 23 at 10pm/9c on Rock Center's hour-long look at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 'Mormon in America.'
Al and Juleen Jackson hit it off instantly.
"We dated for about three weeks and she said, 'If you really like me, you're really going to like my church," Al Jackson said.
Al, raised a Southern Baptist, converted to the Mormon faith. Now married nearly 20 years, the couple have five children and live in a traditional Mormon household in Salt Lake City, Utah. They read scripture daily and spend three hours in church every Sunday. They're trying to raise their family with Mormon values in a world that can seem so secular and sexual.
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Of the family's commitment to their Mormon values which include not drinking alcohol or having caffeine, Juleen Jackson said, "I don't see so much of it as, you know, a uniformity code that we all have to kind of march to...I want to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I want to live the commandments of the Lord..and they bring me happiness. I'm not doing anything I don't want to do."
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